Category Archives: BusinessBenefitsTV
Business Benefits TV Episode 5 – No Cost Benefits
In this episode, Jim Edholm and his associate talk about voluntary benefits. Voluntary, employee-pay-all benefits can be made available for various coverage classes such as disability insurance, life insurance, dental, critical illness, accident and many other coverages. Employees appreciate the benefits almost as much as they do benefits that are employer-paid, so they can add [...]
Business Benefits TV Episode 4 – Self Funding Health Insurance
In this episode Jim Edholm walks the listener through the single most under-utilized insurance funding mechanism — partial self funding. When an employer chooses to self-fund health insurance they can recognize the savings that the insurance companies do. It isn’t simple and it isn’t easy unless you have the right broker to guide you through [...]
Business Benefits Tv Episode 3 – Health Savings Accounts
I’ve just returned from the BBI studios where I recorded the third episode of my BusinessBenefitsTV program. Today we talked about Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). I really think the HSA is an immensely powerful vehicle. It’s kinda like a whole life insurance policy – part of the money you pay for health care goes into [...]
Jim’s Great After-School Escape
I grew up in a Chicago suburb, Park Ridge, near O’Hare Airport (which the first Mayor Daley, good Irishman that he was, always called “O’Hara Airport”). Recently I returned there for a marketing seminar, and we had some open time on a Sunday morning. The hotel we were staying at was only about 5 minutes [...]